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Book Review: The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
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The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
You're a 14-year-old boy and you've got no parents, but you've got two real big brothers and all the brothers who got your back you could ever ask for. They call you a "greaser" because that's just how it is in your neighborhood, and it's better than being a Soc.
Welcome to Ponyboy's (yes, that's his real name, just like it says on his birth certificate) world. His eldest brother, Darry, had to forgo college in order to work instead to eventually be able to put Ponyboy through college. His second elder brother, Soda, is a high school dropout and also working to help Darry help Ponyboy. They both love their little brother very much, even if it seems to Ponyboy that only Soda cares. Their parents died in a tragic car accident a few months before the opening of this novel, but in a way, the brothers are closer and even more loving than they were ever before.
Greasers and Socs fight. That is the tacit understanding between the East Side and the West. At first, everything is peaceful in Ponyboy's life. Well, as peaceful as it can get. Then, because of one impulsive decision, in one moment, his life is turned upside down when he discovers that he and his Greaser brother Johnny are now fugitives, running away from a murder committed in self-defense...
Hinton's first novel was also made into a movie. Read my comparison to the book: The Outsiders movie follows the book
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